Die günstige Kambodscha Touristenverlängerung, auf die sich Amerikaner verließen, endete im November 2025. Hier erfahren Sie, was eine Verlängerung 2026 tatsächlich kostet, warum die meisten US-Reisenden stattdessen jetzt ein neues $80 eVisa beantragen, und welche Visumsklasse noch verlängert werden kann.

There is no longer a cheap tourist extension. The Cambodia tourist auto-extension ended in November 2025, so a Tourist eVisa (Type-T) is now a hard 30-day single-entry stay with no built-in renewal. For most American travelers who want more time, the practical move is to re-apply for a fresh Tourist eVisa, which is $80 USD all-in, approved in 3 business days, and delivered as a printable PDF by email. The only Cambodia visa that can still be extended from inside the country is the Business eVisa (Type-E) — if your 2026 trip needs longer than 30 days, apply for that class before you travel rather than counting on extending a tourist visa after you land.
If you searched for "Cambodia visa extension cost" expecting a tidy number, here is the honest answer first: for tourists, the thing you are picturing no longer exists. For years the Cambodia tourist visa had a quiet escape hatch — you could extend it once, inexpensively, for another 30 days without much friction. Americans leaned on it constantly. A beach week ran long, plans shifted, and the extension absorbed it. That ended in November 2025.
So the real 2026 question is not "what does an extension cost" — it is "what do I do when my 30 days are up." For the vast majority of US tourists, the answer is no longer an extension at all. It is a clean re-application for a fresh eVisa, and the cost of that is a known, fixed number rather than a murky in-country fee that varied by agent and by mood at the immigration office.
Up to late 2025, an American on a 30-day Tourist eVisa who wanted a little more time could extend the tourist stay once without leaving the country. It was the cheap, low-friction path, and it shaped how a lot of US travelers planned long Southeast Asia loops — apply for the tourist visa, land, and stretch it if the trip ran long. That tourist auto-extension ended in November 2025. It is gone, and it has not been quietly reinstated.
The practical consequence is that the Tourist eVisa (Type-T) is now a hard 30 days. The clock starts when your passport is stamped at the immigration counter and it ends 30 days later, full stop. There is no built-in tourist renewal to lean on at day 25 when you realize you want another two weeks on the coast. This is the single most common thing that catches returning American visitors off guard in 2026 — they remember the easy extension from a trip in 2023 or 2024 and assume it still works.

Here is the move that replaces the old extension for nearly every American tourist: you re-apply for a new Tourist eVisa. There is no in-country paperwork, no immigration-office queue, and no haggling with a local fixer over a fee. You apply online for a fresh Type-T exactly the way you did the first time, and the cost is the same fixed, all-in number every time.
A new Tourist eVisa is $80 USD all-in, approved in 3 business days, and delivered as a printable PDF by email. That is the real 2026 cost of getting a second stay in Cambodia as a tourist — not a discounted extension fee, but a clean second eVisa at the standard price. Because the tourist visa is single entry, the practical rhythm is: finish your 30 days, leave Cambodia, apply for the next eVisa, and come back when it is approved. You cannot stack a second 30 days on top of the first without an exit in between.
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Erste Reise nach Kambodscha? Hier ist die ehrliche Checkliste für Erstbesucher aus Amerika — das Visum, die US-Dollar-Geldbesonderheit, die Sicherheitsrealität, die Impfungen, der Tempel-Kleidungsstil und wie die Ankunft am neuen Flughafen im Jahr 2026 tatsächlich aussieht.
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The timing matters here. The eVisa is approved in 3 business days, so if you know before you fly out that you want to return, you can apply while you are still abroad and have the approval PDF in your inbox well before your next entry. What you should not do is wait until you are at the border trying to sort it out — there is no tourist visa-on-arrival path to count on, and the land borders that Americans once used for a quick hop out and back are a separate problem in 2026, covered below.

If your trip genuinely needs more than 30 continuous days in Cambodia, do not start with the tourist visa and hope to stretch it — that path closed in November 2025. Start with the Business eVisa (Type-E). It is the only Cambodia visa that can still be extended from inside the country, and it is the right tool for anyone whose trip is too long, or too open-ended, for a single 30-day tourist stay.
The Business eVisa is $90 USD all-in, approved in 3 business days, and delivered as a printable PDF by email — the same light application as the tourist visa, just the business class. Once you are in Cambodia on a Type-E, the in-country extension is arranged on the ground through a local immigration process, in durations that run from one month up to a year. The extension fee for the Type-E is paid in-country and depends on the length you choose, so it sits outside the fixed online price — but the key point for planning is simply that the option exists for the business class and does not exist for the tourist class.

For Americans the choice almost always comes down to one of three patterns, and the cost falls out of the pattern rather than from any clever discount. Pick the pattern that matches your actual trip and the number is decided.
One more practical note on re-applying: because the Tourist eVisa is valid for 3 months from its issue date, you have flexibility on when the second visa kicks in. Apply when your return dates are firm rather than the moment you land for the first trip — a visa issued too early can expire before a delayed return. The 3-business-day approval is fast enough that you never need to apply far ahead.

Some American travelers, hearing that the cheap extension is gone, wonder whether it is simpler to just overstay a few days and pay the fine on the way out. It is not the cheap option, and it is not the simple one either. Cambodia charges a daily overstay fine, payable at the airport when you leave, and it stacks up for every day past your 30-day stay. A short overstay is an annoyance; a long one becomes expensive fast.
The bigger cost is not the fine itself — it is what an overstay record can do to your next trip. An overstay flag can mean extra questions at re-entry, delays at the counter, and in stubborn cases a harder time getting your next eVisa cleanly. For the returning travelers our desk works with most, a clean entry-and-exit history is worth far more than the few dollars an overstay might appear to save. The fresh $80 eVisa is the predictable, paper-clean path; the overstay is the unpredictable one.
The old overland hop for a fresh stay is out — all 7 land borders to Cambodia are closed in 2026.
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